Pig island excursion from Cocokay?

[tkline]

We are planning to visit the Bahamas and the #1 thing we want to do is see the swimming pigs. I read an old blog post saying there was an excursion from Cocokay. Does anyone know if RCL still offers that? I tried looking through the excursions on their site, but didn't see it 

[Ashland]

1 hour ago, tkline said:

We are planning to visit the Bahamas and the #1 thing we want to do is see the swimming pigs. I read an old blog post saying there was an excursion from Cocokay. Does anyone know if RCL still offers that? I tried looking through the excursions on their site, but didn't see it 

Yes...I'm seeing it offered in the cruise planner for my May 2020 cruise stop in CocoCay.

[time4u2go]

I hope they're not offering it.  It's quite cruel to the pigs.

[steamboats]

But don´t be disappointed - it´s not the pig island known through media reports. That one is too far away. It´s just a place where they put some pigs.

 

steamboats

[tkline]

What's cruel about it?

 

We were hoping it was the real pig island, don't know if we want to go to some fake one they made to cash in. I was wondering about this one, because on google maps the real island looks far away. I did find some private excursions leaving from Nassau, but it's an 8+ hour excursion and we were afraid if we did that it would be risky trying to get back to the ship on time. So is this like a pig petting zoo that rcl built themselves?

 

We did find this one on Norwegian

https://www.ncl.com/shore-excursions/FPO_04/Swim-with-the-Pigs ?destination=Bahamas+%26+Florida+Cruises&sort=searchWeight&sortOrder=asc&perPage=12

But we like RCL and Celebrity

[time4u2go]

53 minutes ago, tkline said:

What's cruel about it?

Mainly, the pigs are not in their natural habitat.  They are forced to swim if they want to eat.  

 

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-bahamas-swimming-with-pigs-under-fire-20190426-story.html

https://www.chasingasun.com/blog/4-reasons-why-you-should-skip-seeing-the-swimming-pigs

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/03/swimming-pigs-bahamas-death/

 

[tkline]

oh, that sucks 😞 But, I thought the ones on the real pig island were natural or at least no one knows how they got there, and they live on their own in the wild? But I doubt that stops tourists from feeding them every day

[time4u2go]

3 minutes ago, tkline said:

oh, that sucks 😞 But, I thought the ones on the real pig island were natural or at least no one knows how they got there, and they live on their own in the wild? But I doubt that stops tourists from feeding them every day

That's true about the ones on the real pig island.  But Coco Cay is not the real pig island.

 

There's a lot of other articles written about it, if you're interested.

[tkline]

Oh, yeah, we would only want to do the real island not some fake petting zoo at sea. Guess we'll have to keep searching for a cruise that can go to the real one